IPod-Perhaps a Question for Barry

[bossvette]

I used to have speaker boxes with long wires on a Sunbeam Tiger I once owned and even thought about doing it with my 76

 

[Bwmurph]

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What can I say ? Beer ?!?!

See late post

 

[BarryK]

I know I've helped you (Barry) with a couple of little things on your car that you would have eventually figured out yourself

you helped me out tremendously and they weren't small things and it's GREATLY appreciated!

Anytime you want me to help you with the little bit I may know in other areas like the electronics you only need to ask.

happy new years!

sorry your thread got sidetracked Paul - back to your originally sceduled program

 

[BarryK]

I used to have speaker boxes with long wires on a Sunbeam Tiger I once owned and even thought about doing it with my 76

Sunbeam Tiger??
should we call you Maxwell Smart from now on?

 

[bossvette]

they were known as "the poor mans Cobra" and were quite fast and nimble, mine was equipped with a 302 with a Isky 505T cam and a big ole Holley on a Edelbrock tarantula intake and would smoke em in all 4 gears

 

[1KULC7]

Collin, not quite. Apple will be switching in 2006 to using Intel processors rather than the Motorola PowerPC processing chips. Mac OSX, the operating system will be reconfigured to operate on the Intel processor on the Macs but they won't be running Windows (thank god!), they will still be running the Mac operating system which is still much better than Windows ( ok everyone, yes, that's my opinion, and if you don't agree than fine but lets not turn this into a Windows/Mac debate). The Macs will NOT be running Windows as an operating system , although with the Intel processor it will be possible as I understand it to also install Windows as a secondary operating system on the computer if you really wanted to to run Windows based programs but the main operating system will still be Macintosh.

I would much rather run Lenix or Red Hat anyhow...Microsoft full of to many holes security wise....I still think Redhat will become much more popular the next few years.... FYI...I agree...my understanding is it will be easy to convert the new Intel Macs to run XP...but hey...we are a DELL shop at DHS anyhow....we are designing a COE for our new datacenter so we are looking at many types of processors, SANS, Servers, Storage, etc..... We just run across this MAC news last week....HAPPY NEW YEAR...

 

[Vette66AirCoupe]

I just wish all of us had the good luck of having Apple Computers in our stock portfolios. A year ago it was selling at around $31.30 a share, finished this year at $71.89. Up .44 yesterday on a down day for the market overall. This idea of an aux source of tunes sounds pretty good to me. Why can't you just plug them into your side pipes? I'm still laughing picturing this scene played out somewhere here in Delaware and laughing my ass off! Just do what I'm doing: Dancing around in the basement to all the tunes I'm not allowed to listen to LOUD around the house ! That'll put off a few LB's. Oh Man, just don't get caught Murph!

 

[stepinwolf]

From what I have been reading Barry is the man so,,

Barry

I must have been spending too much time in the garage with my latest project, so can you tell me what you can do with an Ipod. ?. My knowledge on the subject is limited to " it's from Apple, and it's music related " but I know nothing else on the subject.

This is not a joke :confused question.

Stepinwolf

 

[paul67]

Barry,
Here is the CA (large) schematic. The only option seems to be the CD Changer (CDC) 8-pin port. Can an IPod be connected to that?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Buffy97/custom01.jpg

 

[Bob Chadwick]

Paul,

I just did this with my daily driver. It sounds fantastic. I have a premium Bose head unit with a 6 disc changer in the truck that I was never using. I went to circuit city and they had various adapters that would plug into the cd changer input. Mine was about $50 bucks. The adapter has a accepts RCA inputs and you will need an adapter that has RCA inputs on one end and a the mini headphone plug on the other.

You want to connect it to the IPOD through the bottom ports rather than the headphone jack. I had a Belkin power adapter that had the headphone output plug on it. I plug the stereo jack into here and have great sound.

 

[IH2LOSE]

Barry

I must have been spending too much time in the garage with my latest project, so can you tell me what you can do with an Ipod. ?. My knowledge on the subject is limited to " it's from Apple, and it's music related " but I know nothing else on the subject.

This is not a joke :confused question.

Stepinwolf

Remember in the old days you used to be able to record albulms/songs onto a casset tape and only have your favorite songs on it. Well now we can do this digitally with a computer and pay it on an ipod that is actually the size of a pack of cigerettes but 1/5th the thickness. they hold over 1000 songs and we can attached that to a radio in our cars instead of a carring around a bunch of cd or tapes from car to car.

Not to sound like an ass but I really have a problem trying to find my favorites tunes as they always seem to be in the vechicle i am not driving.

I am sure there is more then can do ,but for me this is the benifit.

 

[paul67]

That the key feature. Instead of carrying around scores of cassettes or CDs you can load several hundred songs on a device the size of a cigarette package.

 

[paul67]

Thanks Bob. I see a plan coming together here. How do you get the songs from a normal CD onto the IPod? Is it a software thing?

 

[BarryK]

Barry

I must have been spending too much time in the garage with my latest project, so can you tell me what you can do with an Ipod. ?. My knowledge on the subject is limited to " it's from Apple, and it's music related " but I know nothing else on the subject.

This is not a joke :confused question.

Stepinwolf

Bob
I never take any of your posts as jokes.
the fullsize iPods (smaller than a pack of ciggs but saying "fullsize" to differenciate it from the very small Nano model) allows you to transfer music MP3's on it to listen to music of course, but also allows you to sync up your calender with appointments, you can load in memo's and have an alarm sound to remind you of them, transfer on travel directions and memos, contact informaton from your computer address book, the newest models allow you to store photos and videos so you can travel with and show off pics of your cars, videos of your cars, etc, a world clock, listen to audiobooks, watch music videos, etc, etc, etc.
they have really gooten pretty d*amn impressive!

check it out here:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html

 

[BarryK]

Barry,
Here is the CA (large) schematic. The only option seems to be the CD Changer (CDC) 8-pin port. Can an IPod be connected to that?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Buffy97/custom01.jpg

paul
you might need to check with CA but I was under the impression most of their radios are converted Kenwood units.
The key is going to be finding out what brand radio it is so you can get the proper adapter to plug the iPod into the CD changer 8-pin connector out of the radio.

 

[BarryK]

That the key feature. Instead of carrying around scores of cassettes or CDs you can load several hundred songs on a device the size of a cigarette package.

even THOUSANDS of songs!


i currently have about 2,000 songs and assorted comedy clips on mine I only have the original generation model that 10gig. The new ones are up to 60gigs!

 

[BarryK]

Thanks Bob. I see a plan coming together here. How do you get the songs from a normal CD onto the IPod? Is it a software thing?

quite easy Paul
transfer the songs from your music CD's onto the computer, convert them to MP3 files and than transfer them onto the iPod.
If you don't already have it download iTunes from the Apple site and it makes it VERY easy. They have an iTunes version for Windows.
iTunes will do the MP3 conversion plus it allows you to sort your music into Playlists - for example, roack music, country, R&B, Jazz, classical, Paul's favorites, comedy, audiobooks, etc whatever and however you want your playlists to be.
than you just transfer the playlist to the iPod.
You can even set up iTunes and your iPod so that whenever you plug the iPod into the computer it will sync up with iTunes and transfer any changes you made to your Playlists.

 

[Ron Miller]

Paul,

I just did this with my daily driver. It sounds fantastic. I have a premium Bose head unit with a 6 disc changer in the truck that I was never using. I went to circuit city and they had various adapters that would plug into the cd changer input. Mine was about $50 bucks. The adapter has a accepts RCA inputs and you will need an adapter that has RCA inputs on one end and a the mini headphone plug on the other.

You want to connect it to the IPOD through the bottom ports rather than the headphone jack. I had a Belkin power adapter that had the headphone output plug on it. I plug the stereo jack into here and have great sound.

Paul, I would bet if you took your CDC pin layout to Circuit City (since they sell the adapters) that they would be able to fix you up with the proper adapter for your radio. I'd give that a try in case you can't find out the brand of radio yours is based on.

 

[IH2LOSE]

Just for the unknowing

MP3 is just a word that means its been converted to digital music/video,

the itunes program (FREE) makes every thing simple.

If I can figure it out EVERY ONE CAN.

 

[Bob Chadwick]

Thanks Bob. I see a plan coming together here. How do you get the songs from a normal CD onto the IPod? Is it a software thing?

I use ITunes in MP3 format at 192 bit sampling rate. With the current version of ITunes you don't even have to copy them to the computer, the program rips them off the CD.

I play them in my car and have hooked up the stand that came with my IPod to my home stereo as well. I pitched a 100 disc changer I had bought 10 years or so ago. I basically never listen to a CD.

MP3 will play on pretty much anything. Not so with the file purchased from ITunes which, because of the DRM package they are using, will only play on an IPod.